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Early American Popular Music & Ragtime Music Downloads
Description: restored versions of early audio files; public domain. Some selections © 2005-2007 by the Regents of the University of California. They are licensed for non-commercial public use under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 License.
Special Addition: Christmas Music On The Farm
A scan, with transcribed text included, of a December 1912 article that appeared in Farm and Ranch magazine. It was written in an age where quality music was not widely available outside of the larger cities and aims to convince the country people to buy a talking machine. See Christmas Music On The Farm.
Downloads
Title: A Bunch Of Rags
Artist: Vess Ossman
Year: 1904
1.79 MB
Music only. Ossman was a banjo master. See also Bay State Quickstep entry below.
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band
Artist: Billy Murray
Year: 1913
3.72 MB
Alexander's Ragtime Band was composed by Irving Berlin and was a major hit in 1911. This song was one of those played on the decks of the Titanic as the ship was sinking on April 15, 1912.
Title: Alexander's Ragtime Band Medley
Artist: Fred Van Eps
Year: 1913
3.55 MB
Medley; music, no words.
Title: Bay State Quickstep
Artist: Vess L. Ossman
Year: 1902
1.95 MB
Wikipedia entry for singer Vess Ossman.
Title: In The Good Old Summertime
Artist: John Philip Sousa
Year: 1905
2.04 MB
In The Good Old Summertime, by George Evans and Ren Shields, 1902.
Title: 12th Street Rag
Artist: Imperial Marimba Band
Year: 1921
3.57 MB
Composed by Euday L. Bowman in 1914. Wikipedia entry for this song here.
Title: Black and White Rag
Artist: American Symphony Orchestra
Year: 1909
1.86 MB
Title: Ma Ragtime Baby
Artist: Peerless Orchestra
Year: 1899
2.03 MB
Title: I'm Crazy 'Bout A Ragtime Minstrel Band
Artist: Edward Meeker
Year: 1914
2.87 MB
Title: Grand Old Rag
Artist: Billy Murray
Year: 1906
2.40 MB
A very famous song under the title Grand Old Flag. Wikipedia entry for this song here. Entry for Billy Murray here.
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